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Vocational training counteracts and helps prevent early leaving from education and training

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Vocational education and training (VET) can help attract young people with different abilities and learning backgrounds to education. It also plays a decisive role in retaining them in the education system or reintegrating them after a drop-out experience.

Recent datasets contain a wealth of qualitative information on young school leavers’ and returners’ trajectories and their individual motives: What type of education/training programme have they left, and why? How many of them return to education? How many choose VET pathways? And how many graduate eventually?

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Universities and Lifelong Learning (UALL) series - 50% discount to CR&DALL subscribers

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The Universities and Lifelong Learning (UALL) series (edited by Professor Michael Osborne) and published by Manchester University Press (MUP) analyses the external engagement activities of universities and third-level institutions and is concerned with the range of activity that lies beyond the traditional mission of teaching and research.

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TEMPUS Project Seminar: Third Age Learning in Scotland and the UK

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Professor Michael Osborne, Director of CR&DALL and a Co-PI within the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC) was delighted to be able to present initial findings from the Integrated Multimedia City Data (iMCD) project within UBDC to a members of a EC funded Tempus project, Third Age Education, at a seminar hosted by project partner, the University of Strathcyde.

Newbattle Conversations - Lecture by Professor Neal Ascherson

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As Scotland’s national adult education college, Newbattle Abbey has a unique and important place in the world of Scottish education and it is a position that the college has developed since its inception in 1937. We are now seeking to promote the college’s role in Scotland’s post referendum public discourse through the ‘Newbattle Conversations’ initiative, which is about:

Working and Learning in Times of Uncertainty. Challenges to Adult, Professional and Vocational Education

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I’m very glad to announce that the fourth book in ESREA book series now is published, Working and Learning in Times of Uncertainty. Challenges to Adult, Professional and Vocational Education. This book is edited by the network conveners for ESREA research network for Working Life and Learning, Sandra Bholinger, Ulrika Haake, Christian Helms Jørgensen, Hanna Toiviainen and Andreas Wallo.

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